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FIRST LATIN READER

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hostibus timoris det susplcionem, maiore strepitu et tumultu,

popull Romanl fert consuetude, castra mover! iubet. His rebus fugae similem profectionem efficit. Haec quoque per exploratores ante lucem in tanta propinquitate castrorum ad hostes deferuntur. Vix agmen novissimum extra munltiones processerat,

quam

5

cum

cohortatl

Galll

inter

ne speratam praedam ex esse, perterritls Romanis,

se,

manibus dimitterent

longum

Germanorum auxilium

exspectare, neque

suam

pati digni-

lotatem ut tantis copils tarn exiguam manum, praesertim flumen fugientem atque impeditam, adorirl n5n audeant transire et inlquo loco committere proelium non dubitant. Quae fore suspicatus Labienus, ut omnes citra flumen

eadem usus simulatione

eliceret, 15

itineris

placide progre-

diebatur. namely, on his part.

1.

timoris

2.

fert: calls for.

3.

similem

pred. adj.

haec

matter the (between dashes) until the rest of the sentence is clear.

thetical

neut.

ut:

10.

per freely, by; cf. p. 141, 1. 9. in tanta propinquitate freely, on account of the close proximity 4.

1.

that;

dependent

tantis copils

pati.

see p.

on 158,

I.

(propinquitas, -atis, F., nearness}.

n. fugientem atque impeditam modifying manum, 1. 10.

agmen novissimum: nameWith this ly, of Labienus army. phrase cf. primum agmen, p. 148,

flumen: see p. 159, 1. 3 if. fore: 13. quae: neut., this. supplying here a future infinitive for

6.

1

1.

6.

-cessl,

processerat

-cessum est inter se

8.

longum esse

less (lit. too long).

discourse

is

3,

advance. freely, one another.

7.

precede,

it was needThe indirect

due to the idea of say-

Do ing implied in cohortatl, 1. 7. not attempt to translate this paren-

ut:

fio.

depending on progreomnes: them 14. prep., to the near

diebatur, 1. all. citra:

to his side of.

side of,

i.e.

14. neris :

usus

adv

here,

keeping retreat.

itiup. placide

pr5grediebatur steadily. continued to move on. .

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